Today is World Password Day. For this occasion, Nuance released new research showing that resistance against biometric authentication methods such as fingerprint scanners and facial recognition …
75% of people are stressed about remembering passwords
A recent Kaspersky Lab survey among US and Canadian citizens highlights how issues related to cybersecurity and data protection can stress people out. More than two-thirds of respondents (68%) said …
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Windows 10: Microsoft ditches its ‘ancient, obsolete’ expiring password policy
As part of a major Windows 10 update coming in May of this year, Microsoft will change its password policy so that users are no longer forced to periodically change their passwords. For a long …
Millions using 123456 as password, security study finds
A new survey by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) found that 42% of UK citizens expect that they will lose money as the result of a cyber scam, and a whopping 85% of people do not believe …
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Facebook admits to storing plaintext passwords for millions of Instagram user
For the second time this week, and the umpteenth time in the past 12 months, Facebook has made the news due to a massive privacy blunder. In an unwelcome sequel to a March statement by the company …
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Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
Once again Facebook has made the headlines due to a privacy snafu. This time, it was revealed that the company stored between 200 million and 600 million plain text user account passwords for years. …
SkOUT Lists Top 25 Passwords Leaked Online
SkOUT Secure Intelligence recently released a list of the 25 most common passwords that were leaked online last year. The list is fully made up of very weak passwords, which the average threat actor …
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74% Of Data Breaches Start With Privileged Credential Abuse
A new Centrify survey shows that privileged access credential abuse is a major threat, yet organizations are doing a poor job in terms of managing privileged access and securing privileged …
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Smart Homes at Risk Due to Unpatched Vulnerabilities, Weak Credentials
New research by Avast shows that 40.8% of smart homes can be remotely attacked because of the presence of at least one vulnerable device. Of the vulnerable devices, two-thirds (69.2%) have weak …
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New Vulnerabilities Found in Top Password Managers
New research by Independent Security Evaluators (ISE) has found serious flaws in the top password managers 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass, which render the products about as secure as text …
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